Huffington Post - A couple in Ratcliffe, Texas, has captured a creature that they believe may prove the existence of the mythical chupacabra.

Jackie Stock says her husband, Bubba, found a strange-looking animal eating corn in a tree Sunday night and managed to contain it. When trying to identify the species, Stock noticed the animal's hairless back, large claws, countless teeth and ferocious growl. He came to one conclusion:

Others aren't so sure. Phylis Canion, a nutritionist from the nearby town of Cuero, has a similar-looking creature preserved in her home that some think might also be a chupacabra. Canion visited the Stocks and checked out their supposed chupacabra. She noticed some significant differences between the animal and her "Texas Blue Dog."

"The feet definitely belong to a raccoon," Canion told The Huffington Post. "Also, its eyes are brown where mine has blue eyes. "I don't know what it is, but I'd like to analyze its DNA," she said. Canion said Stock is working with a veterinarian to get that sample, but Stock's neighbor, Arlen Parma, doesn't agree with the raccoon hypothesis.

“You know, I hunted raccoons for twenty years with dogs and all that, and I’ve never seen anything that looks like that right there,” Parma said, according to KHON2.com. “A raccoon don’t make that noise, or a possum. What makes that noise? I guess a Chupacabra does, I don’t know."

He also suspects the hairlessness is caused by mange disease, but Canion disagrees with that theory.

"There's no hair on it, but it's definitely not infected with mange," she said. "There are no sores, or raw skin. It's very docile and a sick animal is a mean animal." Canion says DNA tests are crucial and points to her own case. A few years ago, she had vets at University of California Davis perform numerous DNA tests on her own chupacabra, and results suggested her animal is a hybrid of a coyote on the maternal side and a Mexican wolf on the paternal side.

I don't know if the video actually embedded, so if it didn't seriously click here to watch this thing. Like for real, you have to. I almost didn't click on this story cus I was certain it was fake. I played the video without the slightest inkling to buy anything I was about to see. And then I fuckin saw it. Satan itself in the form of a disgusting, small, sorta cute (in a hairless-suck-your-blood kind of way) demon rat dog.

We've all been duped by the internet in our day (thanks Kimmel), and maybe I'm falling victim to yet another scam in our fake fake world, but there's no way you watch that video and don't think that the apocalypse is nigh. I mean for real, if that thing exists, I don't care if it's actually a chupacabra or not, it's clearly some sort of demonic spawn and needs to be banished to whatever dark underworld it rose from.

Reason to stay inside for the day: check.

P.S. Between stories like this and watching shit like True Detective, I'm convinced that the South is still just unexplored territory. Like there's so much weird backwoods areas that civilization just hasn't gotten around to yet where yellow kings rule and terrifying creatures like this fuckin chupacabra and his other deranged cousins frolic without the slightest risk of being found.